Female Authors Top NPR's "100 Best-Ever Teen Novels" List

August 08, 2012

The Atlantic observes that of the 235 finalists in the news organization's online poll of favorite YA lit, 63 percent were written by women.

In the article, "Why Do Female Authors Dominate Young-Adult Fiction?", Meghan Lewit notes that this gender balance: "...would seem like a minor miracle in some other genres. Female authors took the top three slots, and an approximately equal share of the top 100. As a comparison, you'd have to scroll all the way to number 20 on last summer's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy list to find a woman's name (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)" more>>